The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MONDAY, JULY 28, 1894. Local and General News.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 19, 23 July 1894, Page 2

The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. MONDAY, JULY 28, 1894. Local and General News.

A Liverpool racing printer was fined £40 for employing women at liis office on a Sunday. A large number of letters to the Editor are held over. They will appear as space permits. Mr T. Moffatt has beeu appointed agent for the Feildino Star at Rangiwahia. The Rev Mr Macintosh, M.A., one o 1 the oldest Presbyterian Ministers in New Zealand, died suddenly at Stratford ou Saturday. Diphtheria is prevalent in Auckland. Kerosene, used as a gargle, or for painting the throat and tonsils, is given as a most effectual remedy. The Feiiding Debating Society will meet in the Foresters' Hall this evening at 7.30. Members are requested to invito friends. We have to acknowledge receipt of Hansard No. 5 and a batch of Parliamentary papers from the Government Printer. At tho Magistrate's Court on Thursday, Wesley Knight was fined 10s and costs 10s for haviug a diseased cow in the sale yards at Levin on June 25th last. A singular case was brought before our notice last week. Mr J. Dalton, of Campbelltown, had the misfortune to lose a valuable draught horse, which ate half a sack of pollard, with fatal results. Tbe meeting of ratepayers in No. 1 Ward of the Pohangina Road District, wbich was to have been held at IMr Curries house on Friday last was postponed to August 3rd, owing to tho small attendance. At the annual meeting of tho Foxton Racing Club on Thursday last, a safcistactory credit balance ou the year's operations was reported. At the election of officers Mr J. E. Henry was appointed handicapper. There was only a small attendance at Professor Lichtwark's horsetaming exhibition on Saturday nigbt, owing to the wet weather. Those who were present expressed general satisfaction of the Professor's methods. We regret to announce that Dr Charlton met with an accident on Saturday afternoon by which his left arm was broken above the elbow. The doctor had driven up to J. M. Higgin's chemist shop, and in alighting from the vehicle, with one hand in his pocket, he slipped on the kerking of the footpath and fell, with the result mentioned. Dr Charlton at once proceeded to tho residence of Dr Monckton, who set tbe injured limb. The Cheltenham Dairy Company bave appointed Messrs Leary and Co., produce dealers, their sole agents in Wellington for the famous "Pakeha" brand of butter. There has been a great demand for this brand of butter through the present winter, which speaks well for the future prospects of the Company. The; output of butter will, withiu a few ■-veoks, be larger than at present, as tho s-ipply of milk at the Cotytou creamer s commenced to increase, and it is .\| ccted the supply will show an mmm asc withiu a fortnight at the factory f ( 'hcltenham. iiiniigst those who are trying their •^ it t'ooluardic is James Hunt, who .1 A i.t-»r)v l'l0l),()00 on the Thames liificirt 27 years ago, Hunt bought the uk. Edinburgh's horses and carriages •limy and presented them to his bride 11 klaud girl He went to England lfcj&<>, and lost nearly all his fortune in r 11. 1 nit: ironworks. He then returned to h Ztixliitid, und in a lew years be was • t upas be was before he, Cobley, * .Hid Clurkson came across the im* • liml nf u".ld m the Shotover Creek ti. 1 hames one bright afternoon in 1868. We regret that want of space on Satis day prevented us giving the notice to Mr Watson's lecture that it undoubtedly di 'served. Suffice ifc that the lecture and its treatment were a revelation to the highly appreciative audience. Mr Watson speaks absolutely without note of any kind, and in the choicest diction. Tlie lecture is a series of graphic word ;.ictiircß, combined with the most ad.v.ruble arrangement of the leading facts nd incidents of the great war, and as ilie Chairman remarked at the close, in proposing a vote of thanks to fche lecturer, that he felt sure few of the audience had realised that the speaker had held fcheir interest and attention for over an hour and a half. It was announced that owing to the weather and other causes, the musical portion of the programme could not be carried out. It is to be hoped an early opportunity will be afforded of hearing Mr Watson's lecture under more favorable auspices, as it is a production of the highest merit.